Hamlin wins Bristol pole: #11-Denny Hamlin won the pole for the Food City 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway with a TRACK RECORD speed of 129.991mph for his 1st pole of 2014, 2nd at Bristol and 18th of his career.
#2-Keselowski is on the outside pole, followed by #20-Kenseth, #22-Logano, #9-Ambrose, #24-Gordon, #18-Busch, #16-Biffle, #31-Newman, #5-Kahne, #48-Johnson, and #99-Edwards.
#22-Logano was fastest in the first qualifying session with a speed of 129.369
Missing the race were: #35-Reutimann & #77-Blaney.(3-14-2014)

Qualifying Fast Facts - Bristol:
Denny Hamlin won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 54th Annual Food City 500 with a track qualifying record lap of 14.761 seconds, 129.991 mph. Kyle Busch held the previous record with 129.535 mph/14.813 seconds.
This is his 18th pole in 295 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. He is now tied with Lee Petty, Joe Weatherly and Donnie Allison for 38th on the all-time list.
This is his first pole and second top-10 start in 2014.
This is his second pole in 17 races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Brad Keselowski (second) posted his third top-10 start of 2014 and his fifth in nine races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Matt Kenseth (third) posted his 12th top-10 start at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is his second in four races this season.(NASCAR Statistics)(3-14-2014)

Coverage of Qualifying for the Food City 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway is scheduled for Friday, March 14, 2014 at 4:40pm/et.Television: FoxSports1 at 4:30pm/etRadio: Performance Racing Network at goprn.com.
Scheduled Qualifying TV Re-Air: none

Friday practice: for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway is over after 90 scheduled minutes. The top 5, slowest, and notes:
#41-Busch 129.789
#24-Gordon 129.421
#11-Hamlin 129.351
#99-Edwards 129.317
#9-Ambrose 129.238
slowest: #30-Kligerman 123.300 & 33-Hil 119.010.
#51-Allgaier was the only driver to not complete a full lap.
Notes: Five minutes into practice, #10-Patrick got loose off turn 2 and slid into #30-Kligerman. Patrick will go to a backup car. Other drivers making contact with the wall and going to backups: #51-Allgaier, #18-Busch, #16-Biffle. #20-Kenseth and #17-Stenhouse, Jr. also got in to wall but suffered only minor damage.
Qualifying is this afternoon at 4:40pm/et and will be shown on FoxSports 1
See the speeds, laps run, 10-lap averages on the Bristol Practice 1 speeds page.(3-14-2014)

Ties are broken as follows:
1) Owners Points
2) Best finishes, most wins, 2nds, 3rds and so on until the tie is broken
3) If tie still remains, then the team with the highest position first breaks the tie
(so if two are ties, both have a win, then the team who won first gets the spot)